Even our content creators cannot pretend to like the trashy writings of Dawntrail.

[Turtledeluxe]

I only have a few days left of my sub, but am losing hope that we'll ever have a response to this. I appreciate that to some people the story isn't that important, and that the other aspects of Dawntrail that were done well can more than make up for it. But I don't think I could physically play through anymore MSQ or expansions if they are written like Dawntrail. It was almost a viceral, painful reaction by the end, and it was such a shock as I have LOVED everything MSQ, even from ARR. This story had to go through so many people, so many must have thought it was great, that I just can't trust that it won't be more of the same in the future.

I don't think there's a way to apologize for the story being bad because ultimately, story quality is subjective and by apologizing for it you are indirectly telling people who did enjoy it that they are mistaken. All they can really do is just do better with the patches imo.

That said, I'm in the same boat and next expansion I'm happily waiting for reviews.

get nothing like that in DT. The game even contradicts itself, going on about long-standing problems that are always resolved in a couple of minutes (or days at worse, if it's Gulool Ja Ja's doing). This isn't human. It's so detached from any experience you have- how can I believe this place where everything gets resolved in minutes or is otherwise a perfect fantasy-land? Even in Mamook, we undo decades of strife, suffering and resentment in minutes. I don't know. Maybe it's me, but I just can't really hold my suspension of disbelief.

That sums up the first half of DT imo. There's just a glaring problem and what's worse, is that this occurs multiple times in succession. Also stories like the XIIIth and Alexandria seem like they should have been full xpacs. They're huge victims of telling vs showing and pretty quick wrap ups, even though they take slightly longer to resolve.